More Adventures in Germany
We had an interesting weekend. We went to the German schwimbad, swimming pool. Speedos are NOT cool. String bikinis are NOT cool. That's what they wear here. I felt incredibly modest. The children (girls included) run around shirtless with mini-speedos until age 7 or 8. That didn't bother me much, though. The Speedo inventor should be flogged. Caylea did a front flip off the high diving board, 13 feet. Keep in mind that this child, when she quit gymnastics, was doing front flips on the balance beam and landing them. She could do all kinds of crazy flip things on the floor and bars and beam and her only injury, although severe, was her ankle last year. Well, she does a simple single front flip off this diving board and, because it was so high, she over-rotated and ended up doing more like a 1 1/4 flip. She landed on her FACE and chipped 3 of her permanent teeth. She was quite upset, not because she hadn't properly landed the flip, but because her teeth weren'